The Many Faces of
ROLANDO MASFERRER
Some believe Rolando Masferrer was a
pudgy man with sun glasses. Here is presented a look at the man from a
young boy to a month before his death.
Also here are a few Masferrer associates and relatives. (This list will be added to periodically)
Photo of Masferrer as
a young man , from the aunt who raised him.
1947... A picture taken during the Cayo Confites (
Dominican) invasion with his brother Kiki.
1950s.. sitting with
Carlos Prio .
........... with his wife Lucila at
the Riviera Hotel in Havana.
........... at his
beach house in Cuba (possibly Bahia Honda)
........... talking to
Rio Chaviano (probably in the late '50s)
........... dressed in western wear on a
ranch in Cuba is Kiki Masferrer and wife.
........... the house of Alejandro Rojas Cano in
Arroyo Arenas . Alejandro, Rolando's uncle, raised him when he was younger. Rolando attended
school in Texas and Oklahoma when Alejandro was being trained by the U.S. Army in the 1930s.
1959... leaving the INS
McAllen detention center in Texas.
1959... Miami Beach mug shot for
stealing the car of Daniel Vasquez whose wife he was seeing.
1961... detained by INS to keep him out of the BOP
invasion by order of the
President .
1960s..
pumping gas in New Jersey .
............ taking
flying lessons in New Jersey.
............ at an anti-Castro meeting
in New York with comrades in arms.
............ while working as a reporter he covered the campaign of
William Buckley in NY.
............ in
Miami .
1967... Being detained with Auria Poggio after
Project Nassau .
1967... In front of the courthouse with Rolandito
during his trial for invading Haiti.
1968... After jumping bail for the 1967 invasion of Haiti he
went into hiding .
1968... A mug shot taken after he turned
himself in case 67-105.
1972... In prison
at Marion, IL after transfer from Atlanta.
1973... Photo taken
in the editorial office of Libertad Newspaper on Flagler Street.
1974... The last picture taken of
Masferrer alive.
His brother
Raimundo Masferrer
Kiki's son
Rolando P. Masferrer
aka "Rolandito" taken at Mitchell Werbell's farm in Powder Springs,
Georgia holding an Ingram M-10 with suppresser. Another picture
of
Rolandito firing his Ingram.
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